perf/core: Add a callback to perf events

A simple callback in a perf event can be used for multiple purposes.
For example it is useful for triggered based events like hardware
breakpoints that need a callback to dispatch a triggered breakpoint
event.

v2: Simplify a bit the callback attribution as suggested by Paul
    Mackerras

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This commit is contained in:
Frederic Weisbecker
2009-10-18 15:33:50 +02:00
parent 41a48d14f6
commit 97eaf5300b
2 changed files with 16 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ struct perf_pending_entry {
void (*func)(struct perf_pending_entry *);
};
typedef void (*perf_callback_t)(struct perf_event *, void *);
/**
* struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation:
*/
@@ -639,6 +641,8 @@ struct perf_event {
struct event_filter *filter;
#endif
perf_callback_t callback;
#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
};
@@ -748,7 +752,8 @@ extern int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event);
extern struct perf_event *
perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
int cpu,
pid_t pid);
pid_t pid,
perf_callback_t callback);
extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event);
struct perf_sample_data {